Press Releases
Tate Modern’s Tate Exchange: Warwick academics question Truth, Justice and History through public art engagement
Researchers from the University of Warwick are exploring their research findings through artistic practice with the public at Tate Modern’s Tate Exchange programme next month (June 12-17).
New insights into disabled young people who 'succeed but don't proceed' at school
Social factors including low expectations and experiences of bullying are creating barriers to higher education for young people with disabilities in England, according to new research from the University of Warwick and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) published today in the British Journal of Sociology.
More Leverhulme Success for University
Another member of the University of Warwick Department of Sociology has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize in the 2017 awards round. Dr Maria do Mar Pereira’s prize brings the University’s total to five, out of just thirty prizes awarded nationally this year across different disciplines.
Warwick academic honoured with British Sociological Association Distinguished Service award
Professor John Solomos from the University of Warwick Department of Sociology has been given this year’s Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award, an award made each year by the British Sociological Association to an outstanding individual who has contributed greatly to the discipline.
How does your dog feel about training? A new research project aims to find out
On the first day of the Year of the Dog 2018, researchers at the Universities of Warwick, Cardiff and Scotland’s Rural College are launching a new website introducing an innovative research project that will study dog training as a means to explore how different training cultures shape the animal-human relationship, from the animal’s point of view as well as the human’s.
Is Santa Paws visiting your pet this year?
University of Warwick researcher Professor Nickie Charles looks at the ways we make our dogs and other companion animals part of our Christmas and asks whether pets really enjoy the rituals of Christmas alongside their human companions.